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Old 03-11-2006, 08:15 PM   #1
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Just thought that this would make an interesting subject, some roads in Bolivia, perhaps you could post your own more astounding pics.









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Old 03-11-2006, 08:24 PM   #2
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Thanks mate, you've cured me of any further anxiety about Berowra Waters Road.

F.......ar out, I don't think my sense of vertigo will allow me to return to this thread. Sweat is pouring off my palms. Are the trucks equipped with ejector seats/parachutes?
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Old 03-11-2006, 08:26 PM   #3
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Thanks mate, you've cured me of any further anxiety about Berowra Waters Road.

F.......ar out, I don't think my sense of vertigo will allow me to return to this thread. Sweat is pouring off my palms. Are the trucks equipped with ejector seats/parachutes?


Cheers mate can remember that, LOL

How about watching TV whilst you drive then.
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Old 03-11-2006, 11:02 PM   #4
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Another one of those insane bolivian roads.
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Old 03-11-2006, 11:07 PM   #5
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I got that one that goes through the edge of he cliff in an email the other day, the title said it was in Russia. Wherever it was makes you wonder how much trouble they went to build it.

I have a mate who went to Bolivia a few years back and did a tour on one of these roads, the bus he was on had dodgy brakes and the track was 2 lane but not wide enough for 2 to pass on 85% of it. At one stage a tree blocked the track and they stopped for an hour to cut through it with machetes- then the driver was going faster as he was behind schedule while he announced that there were on average 1 bus a week that had a crash off the cliff
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Old 03-11-2006, 11:21 PM   #6
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More from that road in Bolivia (the Coroico Rd)







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Old 04-11-2006, 12:20 AM   #7
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haha, thats insane! crazy bolivians (sp?)
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Old 04-11-2006, 12:55 AM   #8
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Damn, that part with the waterfall going over it would be sweet to drive along.. Pitty you couldn't stop to admire the view, you'd get a truck up your clacker!
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Old 04-11-2006, 01:07 AM   #9
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Cheers mate can remember that, LOL

How about watching TV whilst you drive then.
so how do you change channels?? turn one lane you are in a different tv station or there a remote in the car
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Old 04-11-2006, 01:33 AM   #10
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Cheers mate can remember that, LOL

How about watching TV whilst you drive then.
What I find funny about this, is that the TV's on the incoming side are facing the outgoing traffic.. Do they look in their rear views to watch TV? =P
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Old 04-11-2006, 01:50 AM   #11
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What I find funny about this, is that the TV's on the incoming side are facing the outgoing traffic.. Do they look in their rear views to watch TV? =P
Probably double sided screens.... Dubai is unbelievebly rich.

Hafeet Mountain Road rings a bell as a great road...




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Old 04-11-2006, 11:39 AM   #13
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Old 04-11-2006, 11:48 AM   #14
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yeah, saw a doco where they built it, its in france
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Old 04-11-2006, 01:57 PM   #15
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I have seen the same doco, very interesting on how the spans where moved into place.

http://bridgepros.com/projects/Millau_Viaduct/

Most of the other pics have come from this weeks update at ORSM
http://www.orsm.net/
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